He’s completely internalized. Brian Wilson has been on an endless victory lap since 1976. First with his participation in “15 Big Ones” and ...
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The Model Is Broken
It’s very well-established. You take your time to record an album and you keep it alive on terrestrial radio. In the best of ...
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The Chris Blackwell Book
“The Islander: My Live in Music and Beyond”: https://amzn.to/3wV6iI0 1 He’s no Clive Davis… But that’s a good thing! As a matter of ...
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Streaming Statistics
HITS ARE GETTING SMALLER There’s an article by Anne Steele in today’s “Wall Street Journal” about the lack of new tracks in the ...
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The Arista Book
Looking for the Magic: New York City, the ’70s and the Rise of Arista Records” 1 I wasn’t interested. Another testimonial to self-aggrandizing ...
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Exile On Main Street 50th Anniversary
It’s hard to convey how big “Sticky Fingers” was, how it permeated the culture, burned its way into the consciousness of America. The ...
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The MoFi Desperado
“Desperado” was a stiff when it was released. It’s not like it didn’t sell at all, but there were no hit singles, it ...
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Don’t Think Jesus
My audience won’t like this. They’d prefer something like “Dirty Laundry,” Don Henley’s response to newscasters who reported on his peccadilloes. But that’s ...
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The Coachella Backlash
Watch this: https://bit.ly/3OmMdRu You may never go on TikTok, you may not even have an account, but the target demo does, you know, ...
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Spotify’s Share
Apple is under scrutiny for taking a huge slice of in-app purchases and the belief that it favors its own applications over others. ...
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